共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯（R）和民主党人特洛伊·杰克逊周二在缅因州参议院的第三场辩论中展开激烈交锋，距离选举日仅剩三周。柯林斯和杰克逊在一小时的辩论中就多个议题展开争论，包括现任议员对伊朗战争的赞成和反对票，以及他们在如何解决缅因州（“松树州”）生活成本问题上的分歧。该辩论由缅因州电视台WABI主持。
Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Democrat Troy Jackson clashed Tuesday in their third Maine Senate debate with just three weeks until Election Day. Collins and Jackson sparred on several topics, including the incumbent's votes for and against the Iran war as well as their differing views on how to address cost of living issues in the Pine Tree State, over the course of the hour-long debate hosted by Maine station WABI.
尽管在某些议题上他们找到了共同点，例如反对特朗普总统对加拿大的贸易战以及数据中心问题。但杰克逊仍经常试图将柯林斯与特朗普及其议程挂钩，这引发了参议员的反驳。两位候选人将于周四再次在缅因新闻中心主持的辩论中正面交锋。以下是他们最新交锋的三个要点：杰克逊多次试图将柯林斯与特朗普联系起来，因为他的支持率持续下滑，威胁到在11月的选举中拖累共和党上下票。
At times they found common ground, however,on their opposition to President Trump's trade war with Canada as well as data centers. But Jackson still regularly sought to tie Collins to Trump and his agenda, prompting pushback from the senator. The two candidates will face off once again on Thursday in a debate moderated by News Center Maine. Here are three takeaways from their latest face-off: Jackson repeatedly sought to link Collins to Trump, as his sagging approval ratings threaten to bog down Republicans up and down the ballot in November.
在伊朗战争问题上，杰克逊指责该参议员投票支持特朗普的军事授权“是因为她无论何时都会做唐纳德·特朗普想要的事。” “而当苏珊·柯林斯有机会阻止他时，因为她是[参议院拨款委员会]的主席，她却没有这样做，”杰克逊说。“这就是我们目前的处境。”柯林斯予以反驳，指出她曾与党内主流决裂，九次根据《战争权力法案》投票以结束冲突。
On the Iran war, Jackson accused the senator of voting to support Trump’s military authorization “because she does whatever Donald Trump wants." “And when Susan Collins had the chance to stop him, because she’s chair of [the Senate Appropriations Committee], she would not do that,” Jackson said. “And that’s where we are right now.”Collins pushed back, noting she broke with her conference and voted nine times to end the conflict under the War Powers Act.
这位缅因州共和党参议员今年早些时候曾五次投票反对旨在限制特朗普战争权力的失败决议。杰克逊将伊朗战争与能源价格上涨挂钩，继续批评柯林斯未能充分反对总统。柯林斯将高昂的能源成本归咎于缅因州首府奥古斯塔的州立法机构。杰克逊直至2024年一直担任州参议院议长。这位民主党人还在讨论对加拿大的关税时试图将柯林斯与特朗普联系起来。
The Maine Republican did vote on five occasions against failed resolutions to rein in Trump’s war powers earlier this year. Jackson linked the Iran war to rising energy prices, continuing to knock Collins for not pushing back enough against the president. Collins cast the blame on the Maine state legislature in Augusta for high energy costs for Mainers. Jackson was the state Senate's president until 2024. The Democrat also sought to tie Collins to Trump while debating tariffs on Canada.
他说华盛顿的立法者应该介入并使用他们的权力来阻止关税。“底线是特洛伊和我都会投反对票反对加拿大的关税，”柯林斯回答道。“在这些问题上，我们的投票不会有任何区别。但这里有个关键的区别。我能够进行谈判，并让某些项目从关税清单中移除。”柯林斯对杰克逊的联邦选举委员会（FEC）报告提出了担忧，该报告“概述了他的捐助者和支出”，促使这位民主党人表示他将公开这些文件。
He said that lawmakers in Washington should have intervened and used their authority to stop the tariff. “The bottom line is that Troy and I both would have voted against the Canadian tariffs,” Collins replied. “There would have been no difference in our votes on those issues. But here’s the key difference. I’ve been able to negotiate and get certain items removed from the tariff list.”Collins raised concerns over Jackson's Federal Election Commission (FEC) report “outlining his contributors and his expenditures," prompting the Democrat to say he will release the filings.
“他还没有告诉我们。他承诺要完全透明，但他至今尚未提交一份报告，”柯林斯说。在竞选过程中，柯林斯一直审查杰克逊的财务披露，尤其是考虑到他的民粹主义竞选以及他公开拒绝企业政治行动委员会（PAC）资金。杰克逊在辩论舞台上告诉柯林斯，他将在周三上午公开提交这些文件。“怎么样？够了吗？”他问道。
“He’s yet to tell us. He promised to be completely transparent, yet he has not filed a single report," Collins said. On the campaign trail, Collins has scrutinized Jackson over his financial disclosures, particularly given his populist campaign and his public rejection of corporate PAC money. Jackson told Collins on the debate stage that he would release the filing publicly Wednesday morning. "How about that? Was that enough?" he added.
“因为我们看到你们的，我知道没有亿万富翁在资助我。”第三季度联邦竞选支出申报的截止日期是周四晚些时候。柯林斯尚未提交她同期的报告。此前，杰克逊曾拿九月ProPublica的报道刺激参议员，称FBI曾调查柯林斯及其超级政治行动委员会 allegedly 与一家国防承包商进行的“付费换取”计划。该参议员否认了该报道，称其为“党派攻击”。
"Because we see yours and I know that there’s no billionaires funding me.”The deadline for Q3 federal campaign expenditure filings is late Thursday. Collins has not yet released her report for the same time period. Earlier, Jackson jabbed the senator over September ProPublica reporting that the FBI investigated a pay-for-play scheme that Collins and her super PAC allegedly engaged in with a defense contractor. The senator has denied the report, ripping it as a "partisan hit job."
杰克逊在周二的辩论中表示，他听到柯林斯谈论在州一级清除欺诈行为时感到震惊，因为“在这儿只有唯一一人被FBI指控有此行为。”柯林斯对此不置一词，后来指责他说谎并攻击她的诚信。
Jackson said during Tuesday’s debate that he was shocked to hear Collins talk about routing out fraud at the state level because "there’s only one person up here that’s been accused of that by the FBI.”The remark was brushed off by Collins, who later accused him of lying and attacking her integrity.
辩论接近尾声时，柯林斯指责对手“整晚都在反复侮辱我的人格”。她说：“他声称我做那些所谓亿万富翁想做的事……我就是无法继续无视这些对人格的攻击。”
Towards the end of the debate, Collins accused her opponent of having “repeatedly insulted my integrity all evening long.”“He claims that I do what the so-called billionaires want to do … And I just cannot continue to ignore these attacks on my integrity,” she said.
这两位缅因州参议员候选人在第三次登上辩论舞台交锋时，找到了一些共同点。在双方谈判失败后，两人都强烈反对白宫对加拿大征收的关税，柯林斯表示：“特洛伊和我都会投反对票，反对对加拿大征收关税。”
The Maine Senate candidates found some common ground at their third meeting on the debate stage Both of them sharply disagreed with the White House's tariffs on Canada after failed talks between both countries, with Collins saying, "Troy and I both would have voted against the Canadian tariffs.”
“问题不是加拿大挑起的，”柯林斯说，“是特朗普政府挑起的。现在加拿大在乳制品方面确实设有贸易壁垒，我已建议加拿大大使取消那些壁垒。”
“Well, it wasn’t the Canadians that started this problem,” Collins said. “It was the Trump administration. Now the Canadians do have trade barriers when it comes to dairy products and I have advised the Canadian ambassador that they should get rid of that."
杰克逊则辩称柯林本可以做更多工作来阻止关税，并补充说，这些关税是“一个人的愚蠢行为”，是“我们在这个州要面对的问题”，而且“让更多的人付出了本不该承担的代价”。“全面关税永远不会是我支持的东西，”他说。
Jackson argued Collins could have done more to prevent the tariffs, adding that the levies are “one man’s foolishness" and "that we’re dealing with in this state, and "it’s costing so many more people money than it should have.”“Blanket tariffs are never going to be something I’ll ever support,” he said.
两人在数据中心问题上也基本达成一致。柯林斯指出她支持《电价保护法案》，该法案旨在缓解这些设施建设带来的高昂能源成本。她表示，认为数据中心建设“应由地方决定”。
The two also largely agreed on data centers. Collins pointed to her support for the Ratepayer Protection Act, which sought to mitigate high energy costs associated with the development of these facilities. She noted that she thinks data center contruction should "be a local decision" Jackson agreed that there needs to be guardrails in place on development, though he knocked Collins on leaving it at the local level.
杰克逊同意发展需要设立护栏，但批评柯林斯仅将其留给地方层面。“我非常赞成确保联邦政府或缅因州政府对这些事情设立护栏，因为我不想让亿万富翁再次制定规则，让我们的社区比现在更糟糕，”他补充道。
I am very much in favor of making sure that either the federal government or the state of Maine puts guardrails on these things because I don’t want the billionaires, again, writing the rules and making our communities worse off than they are right now," he added.
柯林斯反驳说，听起来“特洛伊和我，奇怪的是，在这个问题上并没有那么大分歧”。
Collins retorted, adding that it “sounds like Troy and I, oddly enough, are not that far apart on this issue.”